[Marxism] shock words

[Dennis Brasky <dmozart1756@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Smith wrote -

I think the American flavor is probably partly due to the
influence of campus life, with its earnest high-mindedness.
Then of course decades of identity politics have taken their
toll as well. Diction control is an element of turf-claiming.

reply -

So that's the problem - the opposition to Smith's cavalier attitude is
rooted in the petty bourgeois class status of his critics! And throw in the
dig at "identity politics"  (right wing terminology that disses the
movements of the oppressed).

I urge comrades to read the chapter *The Struggle For Cultured Speech* from
Trotsky's *Problems of Everyday Life* to understand how the Bolsheviks
approached this subject.


"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."- Voltaire
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